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JOSEPH A. SOHONLEY, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

LOADING ATTACHMENT FOR CARTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,440, dated November11, 1890.

Application led March 8, 1890. Serial No. 343.162. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/cern:

Be it known that I, J osnPH' A, ScHoNLnv, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and lmproved LoadingAttachment for Carts, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures and letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cart having my improvement applied.Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through the cart and theattachment. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation, and Fig. 4 is a plan view, ofthe cart.

The cart-body 10 is mounted upon a suitable axle 11, the wheels l2 beingfree to turn upon said axle. The body of the cart consists of a frontboard 13, side-boards 14, a bottom 15, and an end-board 16. The sidesproject considerably beyond the end-board, which latter is inclinedupward from a point at or near the axle 11, and a plate or board 17 isattached to the lower extremity of said endboard at its inner face,which plate or board 17 constitutes a portion of the bottom of the cart,and is provided with an under forwardly-extending horizontal lip 18, asbest shown in Fig. 2.

The major portion of the bottom 15 of the cart consists of a metal plateor board of suitable length and width having a bearing upon the lip 18at the rear end, and the forward end of the board or plate extendsoutward upon the shafts 19 through an opening at the bottom of the frontboard 13, and is provided at its front end with a flange 20, and uponthe inner face of each shaft 19 a pin 21 is secured, which passesthrough a loop 22, formed upon the under face of the movable bottom 15,as is also best shown in Fig. 2. The bot-v tom at or near its center ateach of its sides is connected with the side-boards by two straps orlinks 23, pivotally connected to each other and to the said bottomandthe said sideboards.

At the rear of the end-board 16 of the cart, which is stationary, ashaft 24. is journaled in the side-boards near the top thereof, and thesaid side-boards are projected downward, as illustrated at a, to forni abearing for a second shaft 25. Upon each of the shafts 24. and 25,between the side-boards,a drum 26 is secured, and over the said drums anendless belt 27, of rubber, canvas, or leather, is stretched, and uponsaid belt a series of slats 2S are attached, their side edges beingclose together, and each board has attached thereto at its lower edge aiiange 29, extending from end to end and forming a series of buckets A,which may be closed at their ends in any suitable or approved manner,the entire structure constituting an elevator.

The upper elevator-shaft 24. at one upper end has secured thereonapinion 30, which meshes with a spurgear,31, mounted to turn looselyupon a revoluble shaft 32, which shaft extends through and beyond theside-boards. The gear 31 in its turn meshes with and is driven by asmaller spur-gear 33, peferably attached to the inner face of one of thewheels 12; but if the axle 11 revolves and the wheels are mountediixedly thereon the gear 33 is attached directly to the axle.

Upon the end of the shaft 32, upon which the gear 31 is held to turn,the upper end of an arm 3e is secured, which arm is curved downward andoutward to extend a distance in frontof the elevator at one of itssides, and a corresponding arm 35 is attached upon the opposite end ofthe said shaft. This latter arm, however, acts as a lever, and iscarried upward and forward to the front of the cart within easy reach ofthe driver. A latch 36 of any description is secured to the sideboard,whereby the handle end of the leverarm may be held in a depressedposition for the purpose of elevating its lower end.

In the lower ends of the two arms 34. and 35 the trunnions of acylindrically-shaped broom 37 are journaled, and upon one trunnion ofthe broom a sprocket-wheel 38 is secured, which is connected by a chainbelt 39 with a larger sprocket-wheel 4.0, forming a portion of the outerface of the spur-gear 31. Thus, as the said spur-gear 31 is revolved, arotary motion is likewise imparted to the broom. `The broom is somelittle distance to IOO the rear of the lower end of the elevator, and inorder that the dirt swept up by the broom may be directed to theelevator, a dust-pan 41 is employed, the upper side edges of which panare pivotally attached, as illustrated at a in Figs. 1 and 2, to lugsformed upon the arms 34 and 35, and the lower edge of the pan is keptimmediately to the rear of the broom almost in contact therewith andelevated above the ground by providing the said pan at each side of itslower end With small wheels 42. The lower ends of the dust-pan areconnected with the arms 34 and 35 by means of short chains 43.

In operation when the broom is in contact with the ground and the cartis drawn forward, the sweepings from the broom are forced up theinclined surface of the dust-pan into the buckets of the elevator andare carried by said buckets and dumped into the cartbody. When asufficient load has been obtained, the driver may elevate the broom fromthe ground and likewise the dust-pan,as it is connected with thelever-arms 34 and 35, by pressing down upon the upper or handle end ofthe long lever-arm 35 and securing the said end beneath the latch 36.

The load may be dumped from the cart in any approved manner; but indumping the load with a bottom constructed as shown the driver forces,preferably with his feet, the

whereby the entire contents of the cart-body may be transferred to theground.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The cart-body having the lip 18, the slidingbottom 15, whose rear edge rests normally on said lip, and the jointedlinks 23,- which pivotally connect the said bottom with the sides of thebody, as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the cart-body, rear inclined board 17, and theendless traveling belt 27, mounted on drums 26, xed 1n the rear end ofsaid cart-body and arranged in a nearly-vertical plane, of the arms 35,pivoted to the cart-body, the revolving brush mounted in the rear endsof said arms, the dust-pan 41, pivoted to said arms and adapted to hangtherefromin contiguity to the lower end of the endless belt, and gearingand chain belts for communicating motion from the re-

